The Lost Love Songs Of Boysie Singh

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021\n\nFrom the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk.\n\nThis is the tale of four women.\n\nPopo: brilliant, vulnerable and stuck. She's determined to free herself from the traps of her past.\n\nMana Lala: a devoted mother - her only connection to her man is their little boy, and she will do anything to keep them both close.\n\nFor Doris, well, he's glorious and once she's licked him into shape, her husband presents an opportunity to climb the social ladder. She's heard the awful stories, but she's sure they won't be hers.\n\nRosie just wants to mind her business, her lover, Etty, and her store.\n\nFour lives, connected and controlled by one man: the notorious, charismatic gangster Boysie Singh. Pull up a chair and let these women tell of the man they believed could love, help or free them, and how some of them survived to tell a tale at all.

Ingrid Persaud was born in Trinidad. Her debut novel, Love After Love, won the Costa First Novel Award 2020 and the Author's Club Best First Novel Award 2021. She also won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018 and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017. She read law at the LSE and was an academic before studying fine art at Goldsmiths and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in several newspapers and magazines including Granta, Prospect, Five Dials, the Guardian and National Geographic.

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